The mirror journal (1915-08-13)

Provincial Library
Edmonton

Jan 16

THE MIRROR JOURNAL ©

VOL. 4, NO. 41

GREAT CROP IN AL-
BERTA THIS YEAR

TENNIS

Ata meeting of The Mirror

Tennis Club recently the fol- :
Total is Expected to Reach 24,000,-
000 Bushels—Conditions Are
Excellent Everywhere

lowing draws were made :
Second Tournament, Doubles
Good-MeCormack vs. Farmer

-McKirdy ; Williamson-Pym

Stone-Meyer; Stone-Hol-

dom vs. Carmichael-Pringle.

oa, That the spring wheat crop
in this province of Alberta this
year will amount approxi-
mately to 24,000,000 bushels, or

an increase of over 60 per cent.

Second round Ist Tournment,

Singles.—Williamson vs. Far-
mer ; MacKirdy vs. Pym; Win-
ner of Rev. Holdom and Good, |

vs. Dr. Meyer.

over last year and that there
will be a big increase this year

. ‘er » vie 25 hs
First round 2nd Tournment, | OV® the yield of 25,000,000 bus

Singles. — Rev. Holdom vs. | bels of oats last year, is the
Stone: Williamson -va.. Car- | statement made recently by H.
michael; Farmer vs. McCor-| A. Craig, ceputy siluister..0f

| R
mack; Dr, Meyer vs. Pym ;| aariculture.
MacKirdy vs. To all

a Bye. ithe crop in Alberta this year is
H. C. WILLIAMSON, Secy.-Trea. We practically

Good ; intents and purposes

Pringle |

assured, are

y

HOUSE OF
HOBBERLIN

New fall samples just ar-
rived. We invite your inspec-
tion and advise an early choice
as owing to the conditions
caused by the war some lines
of goods are going to be very

scarce.

PANRUCKER & HOLLAND

MIRROR and ALIX

Store closes during June, July, August and September at
12 Noon Every Thursday

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

DUITMAN & JOHNSON
HARDWARE

SPORTING GOODS, CROCKERY,
PAINTS, ETC.

JIM LEE

HAND LAUNDRY
Collars, Shirts, Family washing.
class work guaranteed,

SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED
PRICES REASONABLE

E.D. Cc

Harness and Leather

First

Your

WILL PAY

‘|\dry and warm.

DEALER IN

Trunks and Valises.

All kind of Repairing Promptly done.

BEAMISH & CO.

Wholesale and Retail Meat Merchants

announcement

MIRROR, ALTA.,

sure of sufficient heat from this
time on to ripen the crop. The
grain was never thicker and
there never was a better color-
ed stand. Itis a uniformly good
crop this year. In past yeurs
there have been districts where
the grain was not nearly so
good as in others, but this year
the rainfall has been general all
over the province, and consequ-
ently there is a uniformity of
quality. There has been con-
siderable bail in several sections,
but damage on the whole has
been very slight.

The average yield of oats last
year was 30.15 per acre, for 1,-
147,382 acres.

acreage is 1,450,000, and it is ex-

This year the

pected that the yield will be
several bushels per acre more
than last year.

A special crop report cover-
ing the whole of the province
was issued recently by the de-
partment of agriculture, as fol-
lows:

Showers

W heat,

oats and barley growing rapidly

Southeast district :
and warm weather.
Alfalfa is showing good second
crop.

Weather
One bad
30° per
42
Oats headed out.

Wheat still
too moist, but improving. Grain

Southwest district :
hot with some hail.
storm, damage about
Wheat

inches high.

cent. headed out,

Central district :

growth very good. Ripening
conditions needed.
Northern district: Weather

Crop prospects
correspondingly improved.
Live stock in good condition.

A little tragedy—Mother tells
child that an angel is beautiful,
Child tells

mother that father called the

has wings and flies,
hired girl an angel. Hired girl

flies at once.

The average schoolboy’s great
that this

make it imperative tor him to

is war will

regret

study Europe’s geography all

over again.

HAFFEE

Goods---Sweat Pads, All

Dealers
in all

kinds of

one of these spaces

YOU WELL

AUGUST 13, 1915

LOCAL NEWS

The Village of Mirror taxes
are levied at 15 Mills for 1915.

The rate fixed by The Mirror
Schol Board for the 1915 taxes
are 12 Mills on the dollar,

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin arvived in
Mirror last Saturday after be-
ing away for about two months.

Jack Cambell, of Edmonton,
spending his holidays at
Mrs. Bergners.

is

A. G. Holland was a business
visitor to Camrose on Wednes-
day.

The Methodist Ladies Aid
met at Mrs. J. F. Flewwelling’s
on Wednesday and a most en-

joyable time was spent.

Jack Woodford is on the sick

list and is under the doctor's)

care, We wish him a speedy re-
covery.

Where to get ready cash for!
your grain. Apply

BILL JOHNSON,
Carroll Avenue.

M. |

Jewell will regret to learn that |

The many friends of D.

heis again on the sick list.|
We wish him a speedy recovery. |

Haying is the general pass|
word with the farmers, and a}
bumper crop is reported every-
where.

Give us a call and see if your!
subseription isin arrears. We}!

welcome.

The ice cream social held at
D. M.

by the Ladies Aid was we

Thursday |
ll at-

tended.. A good time was re-

Jewell’s last

ported.

daughter Gladys, left on Satur-
Three Hills, Alta.,

where they will visit for a while

day for

and then go on to Granger,

ee

Alta. to visit with her father,

returning to Mirror about Sept.

Ist, 1915.

A. THOMAS & SON

General Merchants
kinds

of General Merchandise

always on hand

EVERYTHING GUARANTEED

Give Us a CAL

IMPERIAL HOTEL

HEAGLE BROS., Props.
First-class Accommodation to Trvvellers

MR. FARMER

When in town call and get your meals
with us and enjoy the free aecommoda

tion we offer you,

yaioae
will give your dollar a hearty

Paul Swartz left on

Saturday
for his home in Edmonton,
Paul has been engaged as clerk

Ltd. for

at Lyons about six

months.

The Mirror School Board are
giving a rebate of ten per cent

on all current taxes, providing

same is paid within thirty days

after the mailing of the 1915

Tax notice.
With the

weather grain in this district

present warm
is fast maturing and ripening.
Farmers are greatly pleased
with the prospects, and only
hot weather is hoped for to
give a bountiful hearvest.

A special flower service will
be held in St.
on Sunday, August L5th. Child-
The
collection will be given to the
Fund of

Moniea’s Chureh

ren and adults welcome.

Home Mission the

Diocese.
The
run from Mirror to Edmonton

the

means of giving several of the

special excursion train

last Wednesday, were
town folks an enjoyable day
the E

the day being bright and warm.

at dmonton exhibition

Mrs. Otto Newinger and son
Herbert, of Lethbridge, have

been visiting with relatives and

friends in this district, and at
this writing is visiting her

brother Geo. Neis, and intends
returning home

August 16th.

on Monday,

The trouble with the men is

{that it is easier for them to die

jried than it is for them to get|

up and light the

their wives after they are mar-

fire for

| ried—and the trouble with the

| virls is that they keep on be

5 CENTS PER COPY

SUCCESSFUL PUPILS

The report of the successful

pupils of The Mirror School
who wrote on Grade VIII
finals of which seven out of

nine pupils were successful as
follows:

Roy Lambott

Clayton Kehoe

Clarence Ray

Claude Motl

James McLeod

Francis McLeod

Dan Clarke

Statisticians prove that Can-
adians are the greatest consum-
the world.

Our

ers of sugar in

We've known it all long

girls are the sweetest ever.

A large gathering of neigh-
the home of

and Mrs. Geo. Neis’ on Mon-

bors gathered at
Mr.

|

day, Aug. 9th. Dancing com-
menced at an early hour and

kept Re-
freshments were served at mid
All departed for their

homes report a splendid time.

up till day break.

night.

FOR SALE.

carry 6 passengers, in first class

Gasoline boat,

working order. Also several
stationary and marine engines,
Apply to
Mirror Machine & Enyineer
Company.
Bill Johnson, Manager.

Carrol Avenue, South.

received a

On Thursday

| correspondence

we

through the

|
mail not bearing the writers

| signature. We wish to state

| for a girl before they are mar-| that all correspondence not

signed by the writer goes into
ithe waste paper basket. Please
to all

items for publication in future,

jattach signature news

jas we do not publish news un-

|less it is recognized by a bona

Mrs. Harry Mitchell and/|lieving the same old fairy tale. | fide signature.

All kinds

Fly Paper :---tuns. 1
For Preserving---
Cooling Drinks---
Summer Comfort---;

FO ee

ing and

Druggist and Chemist

Sealing
Corks, ete.

Lime Juice, Citrate Magnesia,
Acid, Tartaric Acid, etc.
Mosquito Chasers, Tvilet Creams

Delicate Toilet Soaps, Perfumes, Toilet waters.

Everything in Kodak Supplies and we will look after your develop

CHAS. SUGGETT, Phm. B.

ed ed hed ell

Cette te eee ee ee et ek ee ee ee ee +)

SUMMER NECESSARIES

Tanglefoot, Poison Pads, String
nsect Poison, Formalin, ete.
Wax, Fruit Jar Rubbers,

Citric

or sunburns, Talcum Powders,

printing.

Mirror, Alta.

et ee || RE ES ON || OD | | OO || OO | | OD

ies.

Bring me your Tinsmiching repairs.

antee first-class work at right prices.

OF
ORI

ALL CLASSES

serra an a:

Mirror Machine & Engineering
~ Company -

BILL JOHNSON, Manager.

Mr. Farmer

I am prepared to buy all kinds of grain for
the ACME GRAIN COMPANY, in any quantit-
Cash paid for Car Load lots.

os

‘
T guar-
GOODS MADE ‘TO

JER.

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THE JOURNAL, MIRROR, ALBERTA e
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Safety Firstin |

Poultry Raising

Conditions Necessary to Ensure Suc-
cess in the Poultry Business

fo produce poultry that will meet
the present day high standard of qual-
ity requires business-like attention to
the essential things that tend to in-
fluence the proper growth and keep
the flock in such condition as to keep
production proportionately great
throughout the whole year. That
great success can be attained in small
flocks on comparatively small spaces
has been repeatedly demonstrated.

Of course, there are a number of
very essential considerations that may
make or mar success, but we believe
failure is due in more cases to neg-
lect to avoid difficulties than by lack
of attention to furnish what may be
generally termed every day essentials.

The poultryman who raises birds to
show wants to produce something that
will outclass his rival's birds at the
time of the show and the market poul-
try man wishes to produce more mar-
ketable eggs and poultry of prime
quality to secure the top prices for
his product. He who can produce his
goods out of the regular season in as
vigorous and thrifty condition as those
produced during the natural season
has gained an advantage that his riv-
als cannot make up on him.

In considering any aspect of poultry
work we believe it wise to most care-
fully consider the season's work and
plan in advance the possibilities with
the available material and conditions
and on a most conservative basis
make preparation to carry out the
plan by taking all the precautions that
will avoid the difficulties frequently
seen where poultry is kept.

Generally some objective is the in-
centive to any special effort during
the season. It may be some special
shoW at the end of we year or a group
of shows, It may be to supply win-
ners tor customers or perhaps to fur-

nish early broilers of soft roasters or
lo gel eggs early at the season when
prices are high anu in consequence
obtain a muca bigger return
ever the resuits desired it is necessary
to plan a sufficient time ahead to be
sure Of accomplishing what is wanted
with some allowance for shrinkage or
failure on the hoped-for results.

If seasons were all identical one
could plan to get the same results
with the same treatment year after
year, but conditions vary so that or-
dinarily the crop is materially affected
by any deviation from the regular sea-
son. The shortage of early chickens
last fall wa, a marked example of this
fact

Before starting the season's hatch-
ing, which is usualy the big factor in
the year's work, the condition of the
breeders must have the closest con-
sideration. Here is involved the task
of having the breeders in the pink of
condition when the hatching eggs are
to be secured. The best eggs for this
purpose will be secured from the
hens when they are in the best physi-
cal condition. If they are run down
from too much showing or from forc-
ing for egg production they will not
become physically fit unti] well on in
the season. We would consider +
easier to hatch chicks in December
if the breeders were in fine fit then
and carry them through a month more
of winter weather than to hatch in
January from the same birds if they
had lost their snap. The chicks with
one month less of winter to go through
with a weaker start would be harder
to handle than the sturdier chicks out
of eggs laid when the hens were most
physically fit.

So much is dependent on the good
qualities of the male that we consider |
one of the first considerations of safe-
ty is the selection of the male. He
cannot be too good, either, from a
standpoint of the productiveness of his
parents or his own constitutional vig-

or. We believe this to be true no mat-
ter what branch of poultry work is
contemplated, fancy or utility. A

weak, well finished male may produce
something nice mated with strong fe-
males, but it takes the most careful af.- |
ter-selection to keep up the vigor and
prevent the lowering of the vitality of
the progeny on account of the intro-
duction of the bird lacking vitality. As
a general plan we consider it wise
to select the very best type of male
and mate to him such females as will
affect his faults by the qualities they
may show that he is lacking. At the
same time it is a help to remember
that the more nearly alike two birds
are the more nearly alike should the
progeny be. Great extremes cannot
produce a great proportion of similar-
ity and require longer careful breed-
ing to utilize the original traits of
value in both specimens.

Having our breeders selected it is
advisable to make sure that their en-
vironment is al] that could be desired
to give all the natural comfort they
need to keep them vigorous and cap-
able of reproducing themselves in the
largest possible way. By this we do
not mean that lavish expense must be
made for the birds. Very frequently
the simple conditions are much more
result-getting than extravagant condi-
tions, and require less production to

What- |

make a profit.

The housing must be of a nature
to provide great abundance of fresh
air and sunlight at all times of the
year. The temperature is not import-
ant, but the birds must be protected
from stormy winds and be well
well protected when on the roosts at
night. Males that we carry over the
winter get out every day and most of
the time have nothing but snow for
drinking water. We know of no meth-
od that has made hardier, sturdier
breeders than this rough treatment of
the males.

While the male is half the pen, the
best male that could be secured could
not possibly produce dependable stock
unless the females were also of a high
calibre. Good females with
that will mate well with them make
the best selection for building up a
sturdy flock.

Having the pens selected and mated

and everything in order so that they
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will be in good condition to produce
eggs that are capable of hatching
strong, sturdy chicks it becomes neces-
sary to plan ahead so as to have
everything in readiness to give these
chicks every opportunity of making
the best growth, With the early
hatches it is necessary to provide con-
ditions that will as much as possible
furnish those elements that make
them thrive in the natural season.
We believe it possible to mention

these in a single sentence. They need | the liquor traffic in Alberta by prohib-
Sanitary quarters, clean feed of the |

right properties, lots of sunshine and
fresh air of suitable temperature, pure

clean water and conditions that!
make them scratch and work = for
the feed they get. All of these con- |
ditions can easily be supplied if a}

little thought is given the matter in
advance of the actual need of the!
supplying of them. Ordinarily d‘fii-
culty does not develop with the first
brood or two, but as the chicks in-
crease and space and equipment pe-
come used up and the work begins to
crowd, the little fellows or the iater}
hatches get less attention and either
from having to be accommodated in|
coops that have already been used!
by earlier broods or placed on the)
same ground that has become soured |
or contaminated do not make the same
growth as the older or earlier ones,
Perhaps there are no causes that
have made failures with poultry like
overcrowding and contamination of the |
soil. The last we believe to be the
greatest usual factor that impover- |
ishes successful plants, the former be-
ing contributory to the same result
Even on large plants where the
acreage is larger than is always in ac-
tual use for the chicks, it has some-
times happened on most successful
plants that soil contamination has
has made it necessary to abandon for |
the time the location where their oper- |

ations have been heaviest. This is
one of the troubles that can be pre-
vented by taking safety methods be-
fore conditions arise that will affect
the growth of the young :tock. But a
short time ago we heard of a very
successful poultryman who had made
in a few years $20,000 to $30,000 who
found it necessary to abandon his
plant on account of the impossibility
of getting the same growth in his
young stock due to soil contamination.
When this occurs on a farm with rea-
sonably good management how much |
easier can it occu: where the runs
are smaller and the birds more close-
ly confined all the year round. By us-
ing the proper precautionary meas-
ures this tendency n.ay be entirely
prevented and a benefit to both the/|
fowls and the soil from the treatment
to prevent this contamination from
constant use without any treatment.
By frequertly turning the soil and |
occasionally treating with air slacked
lime and sowing to a crop such as!
oats, rape or any other quick growing
vegetation, the trouble will be entirely |
prevented and no evideace of soil or
stock deterioration exist from soil con-
tamination.

Where chicks are being raised in
large numbers, w2_ believe much
trouble can be prevented if all speci-
mens showing the least tendency to
contagious disease are removed im-
mediately from the others. How hard
it seems to the inexperienced to kill
off any sick stock for the sake of the
others. We fully believe that 50 per
cent. of the losses in young stock could
be prevented if those showing sick- |
ness were removed or killed the mo-
ment signs of illness appeared. It is |
better to kill one s.ck bird than to|
take a chance of losing duzens that
might be most excellent specimens

If all people could appreciate fully

|or as a shop, or as a place of busi-

this fact the country would have
much larger poult.y crop to recor, |
‘nd more good breedi:g specimens |
for the next season's operations. Af-
ter the hatching is over we find most
people give their poultry less atten-
tion than perhaps at any other time of
the year. This ‘s a great mistake for
there perhaps is no period cf the year
that is more trying to the birds than
the hot summer months. Fresh |
water, shade, proper non-heating food
are most essential now aud above all
quarters that are sweet and _ clean,
wide open to all the fresh air they
can get. It is not reasonable to ex-
pect that the stock may be neglected
for a couple of months and then extra
care may be given with expectations
of the best results. No, the care must
be given all the year round or tle
greatest possibilities cannot be real-
ized. When the breeding season is
over it is time to begin to think of
the next season and do everything
possible to prepare the breeders for
the next year’s work. They should be
Started on their moult early enough to
have them entirely through before it is
time for cold weath If specially |
early are desired, the birds that are
well moulted early and put in prime
condition so that they can lay strong
well fertilized eggs are the ones to
use, for they only will be the ones
that can produce strong embryos from
which to get vigorous chicks in the
late winter or early summer. By giy-
ing the closest attention to this a
whole season's work can be much im-
proved.

This is a most excellent time to ob-
serve which are the most vigorous for
where there is any likelihood of weak-
ness it will generally show itself
when the strain of moulting is on. At
this time if those having any difficul-
ty or showing weakness are discard-
ed the product for the next season
should be considerably improved.

Many are the ideas and appliances
offered to improve the possibilities in
reasing poultry. Many of them are
most practical and helpful and any

plan that proves itself as one that in: |

creases the result is well worth adopt-
ing, but we think if each poultry rais-
er would not neglect to supply those
needs that he knows are necessary
and will be sure of giving bigger re-
turns and better grown and finished
stock, the crop would be considerably
increased and be of much better qual-
ity and higher value,

Let 1915 prove to be one of well
thought-out plans carried to comple-
tion so as to get the maximum pos-
sible results with the knowledge and
equipment available. Only in this
way shall larger results be possible.—
A. P. Marshall, Niagara Falls, Can-
ada, Breeder of Niagradot White
Wyandottes,

|room or compartments

The Albe

Liquor Act

Full Text of the Proposed Act for the
Suppression of the Liquor Traffic
to be Voted on July
2st, 1915
Whereas it is expedient to suppress

iting provincial transactions in liquor.

Therefore, his majesty, by and wit:
the advice and consent of the legisla-
tive assembly of Alberta, enacts as
follows:

1. This act may be cited as “The
Liquor Act.”

In this act, unless the context
otherwise requires—

(a) The expression “vendor” means
a person auth rized by the lieutenant-
governor-incouncil under section 4
hereof to sell liquor under this act.

(b) The expression “vendors’ prem-
ises'’ means the warehouse or store in
which the vendor under this act is en-
titled to sell liquor and shall include
every room, closet, cellar, yard, stable,
outhouse, shed and any other place
whatsoever, a part of or belonging, or
in any manner appertaining, to such
warehouse or store.

(c) The expzessio.. “liquor” or
“liquors” shail include all fermented,
spiritous and malt liquors, and all
combinations of liquors and all drinks
are drinkable thuids which are intoxi-
cating; and any liquor which contains
more than two ana a half per cent.
(2% per cent.) of proof spirits shall
be conclusively deemed to be intoxi-
cating.

(d) The expression “physician” or

2
“.

|“medical practitioner” means a mem-

ber of a College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of the Province of Alberta,

(e) The expression “dentist” shall
mean a member of the Alberta Dental
association.

(f) The expression “Veterinary Sur-
geon” shall mean a member of the
Veterinary Association of Alberta.

(g) The expression “druggist” or
“chemist” shall mean a member of the
Alberta Pharmaceutical association.

(h) The express.on “Judge” shall
mean a judge of the District Court for |
the District within which an offence is
alleged to have been committed.

(i) The expression “Court” shall
mean the District Court for the Dis- |
trict Court within which an offence is
alleged to have been committed.

(j) The expression “Clerk” shall |
mean the Clerk of the District Court
for the District within which an of-
fence ig alleged to have been commit-
ted.

3. The expression “private dwelling |
house” in this act shall mean a separ- |
ate dwelling with a separate door
for ingress and cgress and actually
and exclusively occupied and used as
a private residence.

(a) Without restricting the general-
ity of the above definitfon of a private
dwelling house, the expression * priv-
ate dwelling house” shall not include
or mean and shall not be construed
to include or mean, any house or
building occupied or used or partially
occupied or used as an office (other
than a duly registered physician's,
dentist's, veterinary surgeon’s office)

ness, or as a factory, or as a work-
shop, or as a warehouse, or as a club-
house, or clubroom, public hall or
hall or hail of any society or order,
or as a boarding house, as as a lodg-
ing house where there are more than
three lodgers other than the members
of the family, or as a livery stable, as
as an inn, tavern, hotel or other
house or place of publi entertain- |
ment, or any house or buildings the
in whica are
leased to different persons, or any}
buildings or house mentioned in sec-
tion 48 of this act, or any house c-*
building \ here for moncy or other
valuable consideration any goods or
chattels are kept for sale or sold, or
meals given or lodging provided, nor
shall] it include or mean to be con-
strued to ‘nclude or mean any house
or building connected by, a doorwey
or covered passage or way of .nternal
communication, except ty telephone

| given

with any place where liquor is author-
ized to be sold under this act, or with
any office, except a duly registered
physician's, dentist's, a veterinary
surgeon's, office, or with any place of
business, factory, warehouse, work-
shop, clubLouse, clubroom, hall before
mentioned, boarding house or lodging
house ag aforesaid, livery stable, inn,
tavern, iotel or other huuse or place
of pubilc entertainment or resort or

| with any house or building mentioned
‘in section 47 of tais act.

4. The lieutenant-governor-in-coun-
cil may from time to time, appoint
suitable persons as vendors who shall
kc »p such liquors as are required for
medicinal, mechanical, scientific and
sacramental purposes only, in accord-
ance with and as permitted by this
act.

5. No suc), vendor shall have any
interest in the liquor sold by him, or
shall derive any profit therefrom, but
the profits derived from the sale shall
accrue to the benefit of the province
and shall form a part of the consoli-
dated revenue of the province.

6. The lieutenant-governor-in-coun-
cil shall fix the salary to be paid such
vendors, and from time to time and
not inconsistent with this act shall
prescribe the duties of such vendors
and the price for which such liquors
shall be sold.

7. The lieutenant-governor-in-coun-
cil shall, from time to time, not incon-
sistent with this act, prescribe the
manner in which vendors may sell
liquors under this act and make such
other regulations as may be deemed
necessary and requisite for the proper
administration and carrying out of
this act. \

8. Every vendor who shall violate
any of the provisions of this act skall
be guilty of an offence, apd on sum-

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A GOOD CHEW IN A CLEAN WRAPPER.

mary conviction thereof, be liable for
every offence to a penalty of not less
than two hundred dollars and not
more than five hundred dollars, and in
default of payment forthwith after
conviction, imprisonment for not less
than three months nor more than six
months,

9, Every vendor convicted of an of-
fence under this act shall, in addition
to all other penalties herein provided,
forfeit his right to be a vendor, and

| shall be disqualified from holding the

position of vendor under this act for a
period of three years next succeeding
conviction,

10. Every vendor and every clerk,
servant or agent of such a vendor who
sells liquor in any other place or ut
any other time or in any other quanti-
ties, or sells liquors otherwise, that as
authorized by this act, shall be guilty
of an offence under this act.

11, A vendor may gell alcohol for
mechanical or scientific purposes, but
no sale shal] be made except upon the
affidavit of the applicant, duly signed
and sworn before the vendor, which
affidavit shall be in a form prescribed
by the lieutenant-governor-in-council,
and which shall set forth that the al-
cohol is required for mechanical or
scientific purposes only, stating how
and where the same is to be used,
and that the same is not intended to
be used as a beverage or to be mixed
with any other liquid for use as a
beverage, or to be sold or to be given
away to any other person, and that it
is intended only -or the applicant's
own use and that the applicant is
over twenty-one years of age and
such affidavit shall also set forth the
quantity desired, and no more than
one sale and one delivery shall be
made on one affidavit.

12. A vendor may gell to a drug-
gist such liquor as a druggist is
authorized to sell under this Act not
exceeding in quantity five gallons at

any one time, but no such sale shall}

be made except upon the affidavit of
the druggist, duly made before such
vendor, which affidavit shall be in a
form prescribed by the Lieutenaft-
Governor-iu-Council, and shall
forth that the said liquor is required

j}only for purposes authorized by this

Act, and shall state how and where
the came ig to be used, and that the
same is not intended as a beverage or
to be mixed with any other liquid for
Use aS a beverage, or to be sold or
away, otherwise than as per-
mitted by this act, and which affidavit
shall also set forth the quantity desir-
ed, and no more than one gale and one
delivery shall be made on one affi-
davit.

13. A vendor may gell to a “physi-
cian” such liquor as under this act
the physician is entitled to have ia
his possession, but no such sale shall
be made except upon the affidavit of
the physician, duly signed and sworn
before said vender, which
shail be in a form prescribed by the
lieutenant-governor - in - council, and
shall set forth that the said liquor
is required only for purposes authoriz-
ed by this ..ct, and shall state how and
where the same is to be used, and
that the same
beverage or ta be mixed with any
other liquor for use as a beverage, or
to be sold or given away, otherwise
than as permitted by this act, and
which affidavit shall also set forth the
quantity desired, and no more than

one sale and one delivery shall be |

made on one affidavit.

14. A vendor may sell liquor to a
dentist personally who is lawfully and
regularly engaged in the practice of
his profession, for use in his profes-
sion only, but not in a greater quant-
ity than one pint at one time, and toa
veterinary surgeon who is lawfully and
regularly engaged in the practice of
his profession, for use in his profes-
sion only, but not in a greater quan-
tity than onc gallon at one time, but
no such sale shall be made except up-
on an affidavit of the dentist o; veter-
inary surgeon, similar to that required
from a physician, and no more than
one sale and one d*livery shall be
made on one affidavit.

15. A vendor may sell wine for sac-
ramental purpoges, but only to a min-
ister of the Gospel, and ‘nly upon the
written request of the said minister
stating the purpose for which it is re-
quired,

16. Every such affidavit, prescrip-
tion or request ghall be retained on
file by the vendor until the last day
yf the month next after that of its re-
ceipt, and the vendor shall permit the
same to be inspec*ed by any person
gwho applies to him for that purpose.

17. Every vendor, druggist, and
physician shall keep or cause to be
tkept in a book to be kept for that pur-
spose an accurate record of every sale

or other disposal made by him, his |

partner, hig clerk, servants or agen‘s
of any liquor under and forming an in-
gredient in any prescription, and of
any wine sold for sacramental pur-
poses, and of each gale of any liquor
or alcohol made by him, his clerk,
wervant or agent for mechanical or

scientific purposes, and such recora |

shall be made before the delivery
of such liquor, and shall show
the clerk, servant or agent by
whom the sale was made, the kind
and quantity sold, and the prescrip-
tion or request under which the sale
ig made, and, in default of such gale
or disposal being so placed on record,
every such sale shall be held to be in
contravention of the provisions of this
act.

18. Every vendor, druggist and
physician shall on the last day of each
and every month next after that of the
sale send to the attorney-general of
the province all such affidavits, pre-
scriptions and requests, together with
a copy of the record mentioned in the
preceding section of this act for the
preceding month not previously re-
turned, verified by his affidavit attach-
ed thereto, and suct. affidavit shall
state that no sales were made during
such months save those mentioned
in the gaid copy of the record sent to

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set| thereafter, or from
night until seven o'clock in the morn-,

affidavit |

is not intended as a!

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son for

the attorney-general,

(1) In addition to the above, every
druggist and physician shall keep &
record of all liquor purchased or re-
ceived by him, and on the first day or
each and every month send to the at-
torney-general of the province a copy
of the said record for the preceding
month verified by his affidavits at-
tached hereto, and such affidavit shail

urchases of liquor were |
Saks aad we lie ; |four contained shall prevent common

made and no liquor received during
such month save those mentioned in
the said copy of record.

19. Every vendor, druggist and
physician who fails to make the re-
turns required by this act, or who re-
fuses to allow any affidavit, prescrip-
tion, request or record required under
the provisions of this act to be in-
spected where so provided herein with-
out charge py any person, shall be
guilty of an offence under this act.

20.
partner, clerk, agent or servant of
such vendor or druggist shall allow
any liquor so sold to be consumed or
drunk within or upon the premises
upon which the sale is made.

21. Every distiller, brewer or other
person licensed by the government of
Canada to manufacture” any liquor
mentioned in section twenty-six (26)
hereof, any and vendor who makes or
uses or allows to be made or used any
internal communication between the
premises in which he is entitled to
carry on the business of manufacture
or sale of any liquor and any other
premises, except by means of eleciric
telephone or te.egraph, siall be guilty
of an offei.ce and liable to a penaity of
fifty dollars for every day during
which such communication exists, and
in default of payment to one month's

imprisonment fo. eac. day as atore-
said.
22. No cale or other disposal of |

liquors shall take place on, out of, or
from any vendo*s premises to any
person or persons whomsoever, nor
shai] such licensed premises be open
for such sale from or after the hour

of five o'clock on Saturday night until |

on Monday morning
six o'clock at

seven o'clock

ing on the other nghts of the week
23. No person shail, within the
province of Aiberta, by himself, his

| clerk, servant or agent, expose or keep

for saie or directiv or indirectly or
upon any pretence or upon any device
sel] or barter or offer to seil or barter,
or, in consideration of the purchase or
transfer of aby property or thing, or
for any otler consiveration, or at the
time of the transier of any property or
thing, give to any othe, person any
liquor except as authorized by this
act.

(1) Provided that the provisions
of this section shai| not prevent any
chemist or druggist, duly registered as
such, from keeping, having and, sub-
ject to the further provisions of this
section, selling liquors for strictly
medicinal purposes; but no such sale
for medicina] purposes shall be made
except under a bona fide prescription
from
hich prescription

no more than

one gale of liquor shall be made, and |

unless such sale is recorded as provid-
ed by this act.
Provided further that any qualified

| druggist may sell to any person any

combination of alcohol with any drug
made according to any formula of the
British or United States
copoeia;

Provided always that no person
authorized to sell liquors as provided
by this section shall allow any liquors
sold by him on his premises to be con-
sumed within his shop or the prem-
ises of which the shop forms a part.

(2) Any chemist or druggist who col-
orably for medicinal

viction thereof be liable to a penalty

for the first offence of $200 and in de- |

fault of immediate payment to impris-
onment for a term of three montlis
and for any subsequent offence to im-
prisonment for not les than 4 menths
and not less than 6 months without op-
tion of a fine, and in addition shall be
disqualified from selling liquors under
the provisions of this act for a period
of one year.

24. No person within the province
of Alberta by himself, his clerk, ser-
vant or agent shal] have to keep or
give liquor in any place wheresoever,
other than in the private dwelling
house in which he resides, except as
authorized by this act,

(1) This section ghall not prevent
any person engaged in mechanical
business or in scientific pursuits from
having in his possession alcohol for
mechanical or scientific purposes, as
the case may be, in a quantity not ex-
ceeding ten gallons at one time, but
the alcohol used in the preservation
of specimens for scientific purposes
shall not be included in gaid ten gal-
lons, and shall not prevent any clergy-
man from having in his possession a
quantity of wine for sacramental! pur-
poses not exceeding two gallons at
any one time; but such person in this
subsection mentioned so having in his
possession such liquor shall not allow
same to be Used or consumed as a
beverage.

(2) Nothing in this gection shall
prevent an incorporated public hos-
pita] from having liquor in its posses-
sion for the use of the patients in
such hospital, but no manager, mat-
ron, or other officer of said hospital
and no physician or nurse in attend.
ance thereat shall give any of said
liquor to any person other than a pat-
jent in said hospital, and then only
when prescribed for or administered
by a physician
tion 32 of this act.

(8) Nothing herein contained shall
prevent a cick person from having in
his room where he sleeps the liquor
prescribed for him by a physician un-
der section 31 of this act, but no liquor
so prescribed shall be given by the
physician, nurse or other attendant
to any other person than the sick per-

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No vendor or druggist, and no}

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whom it has been so pre.
scribed,

25, Nothing in section twenty-four
(24) hereof contained shall apply to
sales under execution or other judic.
ial process to any vendor under this
act or to gales by assignees in bank.
ruptcy or insolvency to suc vendor,
provided that the stock of liquor ig
not broken for the purpose of such
sale, and nothing in section twenty-

carriers or other persons from carry.
ing or conveying liquor from a place
outside of the province to a place
where the same may be lawfully re-
ceived and lawfully kept within the
province, or from a place where such
liquor is lawfully kept and lawfully
delivered within the province to a
place outside of the proviaco, or from
a place where such liquor may ba
lawfully kept and lawfully delivered
within the province to another place
within the province where the same
may be lawfully received and lawfully
kept, or through the province from
one place outside of it to another
place outside of it, but no person dur-
ing the time such liquor is being car-
ried:or conveyed ag aforesaid shall
open or break or allow to be opened
or proken any package or vessel con-
taining the same, or sell, give, or
otherwise dispose of any of said liquor
to any person other than the consignee
thereof.

26. NotlLing herein contained shall
prevent any brewer, distiller or other

a registered practitioner on |

pharma- |

purposes sells |
iqluors to be consumed by any person |
as a beverage shall on summary con- |

ds provided by sec- |

person duly licensed by the govern-
ment of Canada for the manutacture
jot spiritous, fermented or other
liquors, from keeping or having
liquors manufactured by him in any
building wherein such manufacture is
carried on, provided such building
forms no part of and does not com-
municate by any entrance with an,
house or building mentioned in section
three (3) of this act, including the sub-
section thereof, or from selling liquor
therefrom to a person in another pro-
vince or in a foreign country or to a
vendor under this act.

Nothing herein contained shall
prevent any person from having liquor
for export sale in his liquor warehouse
| provided such liquor warehouse and
the business carried on therein com-
plies with requierments in sub-section
(1) hereof mentioned, or from selli:¢
from such liquor warehou:) to per-
sons in other provinces Or in foreign
countries, or to a vendor under this
act.

(2) The liquor warehouse in this
section mentioned shall be suitable for
the said business, and shall be so con-
structed and equipped as not to facili-
tate any violation of this act, and not
connected by any internal way or
jcommunication with any other build-

ing or any other portion of the same
building, and shall be a wareroom or
| Duliding wherein no other commodity
}or goods than liquor for export from
| the province are kept or sold to such
vendor, and wherein no other business
than keeping or selling liquor for ex-
port from the province is carried on.

28. No person shall use or consume
liquor in the province purchased and
received from any person within the
province, unless it be purchased and
received from a vendor. This section
shall not apply to any person who
within a private dwelling house inno-
cently usés or consumes liquor not
thus purchased and received.

29. For the purpose of evidence
every brewer, distiller or other per-
son licensed by the government of
Canada, and mentioned in section
twenty-six (26) hereof and every liquor
exporter mentioned in twenty-seven
(27) hereof who makes a sale of liquor
in the province shall immediately enter
|in a book to be kept for that _ urpose
the date of such sale, the person to
whom such sale was made and the
person or carrier to whom the same
was delivered for carriage; and the
| failure of such person to make, keep
|and produce as evidence the said en-
try and record of such sale, shallinany
prosecution under this act of such per-
son for illegally making such a sale
of liquor, be prin facie evidence
against such person of having illeg-
ally sold such liquor.

30. No person ghall by himself or
his partner, servan', agent or other-
wise, sell or deilver liquors of any kind
to any person not entitled to sell liquor

(and who sells such liquor or who
| buys for the purpose of re-selling), and
any violation of the forego'ng provi-
sion shall be an offence under this
act, and no person shall take or carry
or employ or guffer any other person
to take or carry any liquor out of any
premises where th: same is lawfully
kept for sale for the purpose of be-
ing sold in the province by any person
except a vendor.

31. No person shall consume any
| liquor in or upon any vendor's prem-
ises nor in any liquor warehouse men-
tioned in gection twenty-seven (27)
hereof, nor in any distillery or brewery
mentioned in section twenty-six
hereof, and no person shall purchase
any liquor from any person who is not
authorized to sell the same for con-
Sumption within the province, and no
| person who purchases liquor shall
drink or cause anyone to drink or al-
low such jiquor to ye drunk u,on the

o7
pai

prem.ses where che same 18 pur
chased.

| (To be Continued)

| PRE A ob eS

His Application

| “Here's a Swiss named Egg who

| lives in New York petitioning to have
his name changed.”

“Sort of an egg shake, eh!
| the trouble?”

“He and his wife have four child-
ren, and his family is consvantly re-
| ferred to as ‘the haif-dozen Eggs.’ He
claims his yolk is too heavy to be
| borne.”

“Why doesn't
mentors?”

“It appears that he did
got beaten, whipped to a froth.

What's

he lay for his tor-

once and
Poor

Egg could hardly scramble home.”

good tea’

THE JOURNAL, MIRROR, ALBERTA
MASTERY OF BRITISH NAVY AND |

Zeppelin Air Raids|Perfidy of Kaiser|PATRIOTISM OF RURAL WORKER
WHAT THE SILENT VICTORY MEANS "282 "s." IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE

Has Conspired Against the Peace of
the World For Twenty-Five
Years

The German Kaiser, a hypocritical,
cunning potentate, who for 25 years
secretly conspired against the peace

Need to Worry Over Zeppelin
Danger
The air raids are the natural out-
come of spring, for fairly settled wea-

the. Zeppeline can travel tar trom 8 | German nobleman, ciiming to be one |/NC ME LCES FOR THE SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY
base with any great hopes of returning | of his most intimate friends, in a vol-

safely, says the Liverpool Journal of
Commerce. We can only ope that
from this point of view, the climatic
feats of tuis country will be strictly
in accordance with previous practice,
for if such proves to be the case dur-
ing the coming summer months, the

ume of memoirs recently published in
London under the title, “The Berlin
Court Under William IL”

In what purports to be an unem-
bellished diary record of moments
spent in friendly talk with the Em-
peror during the dvys preceding and

Has Kept in Seclusion the Boasted German Navy, and Enabled
the World-Wide Commerce of Great Britain and her

Allies to go on Without the Slightest Interruption
The splendid record of the British

The Call for Food as a Patriotic Contribution Seems to be but
Little Understood, but the Farmers of Canada are Doing

Their Part for National Defence
slightest derangement; she purchases

mavy since the declaration of war,
must command the unstinted admira-
tion of all who give it due considera-
tion. The operations of the magnific-
ient fleet in the North Sea under the
command of Admiral Jellicoe have
not been of a spectacular nature, but
they have proved thoroughly effective.
Although every office: and seaman in
that fleet has been longing for an op-
portunity to try conclusions with the
German flavy in a decisive battle, the
fulfilment of that wish has been de-
nied them and they have been com-
pelled to maintain the most difficult
of all parts, namely that of patiently
waiting and watching in vain for some
sign of activity upon the part of the
enemy. Day after day, week after
week, month after month, in all sorts
of weather, the strain has never been
relieved for a moment day or night, in-
cessant Vigilance hag been a vital mat-
ter, one mis-step or the slightest re-
laxing of that perpetual watchfulness,
might have afforded tle enemy oppor-
tunity to work irreparable mischief.
Throughout these many months, how-
ever, the British fleet has played its
silent part in the great world tragedy
with remarkable effectiveness. The
boasted medern navy upon which Ger-
many expended many years of labor
and vast su.ns of money has been held
altogether useless in the seclusion of
strongly fortified German harbors.
Meantime Germau raiders and Ger-
man commerce have been completely
driven from the high seas and it is
only by surreptitious means and under
cover of some other flag that that
nation is able to obtain the most
meagre imports from abroad. On the
other hanu the world-wide commerce
of Great Britain and her allies goes
on without the sligntest interruption
and the Germans manifest their ex-
asperation by their dastardly deed of
wholesale murder in the submarine
attack upon the Lusitania. Great Brit-
ain steadily imports the immense food
supply required ‘n war time, from all
corners of the globe, without the

horses, ammunition, weapons and
every sort of supplies required under
existing conditions, from neutral na-
tions and transports them to her own
shores as safely and regularly as in
times of peace. She maintains a great
and crowded ocean highway of trans-
portation from British ports to “he
ports of France, along which many
hundreds of thousands of men are be-
ing carried to and fro constantly as
well as incalculable amounts of sup-
plies and munitions of war, while Ger-
many stands aside gnashing her teeth
in impotent humiliation. Britain mob-
ilizes large and well equipped armies
in the overseas dominions and ~vithout
respect to the particular quarter of the
globe whence they come, launches
them in unarmed transports upon the
high seas over which they travel in
perfect confidence through thousands
of miles of frequented sea lanes, con-
voyed by a few men of war. Although
the shores of Great Britain ere within
a few hours steaming of the harbors in
which the great Germen fleet rides at
anchor, the shores of the "Right Lit-

light Little Island” remain abso-
lutely immune from assailment by
German guns,

When some hist’ rian seriously un-
dertakes to write the history of this
war, he will find it necessary to give
a foremost place in the narrative to
tLe phenomenal work accomplished in
the name of Great Britain by the gen-
ius of Admiral Jellicoe and the untir-
ing faithfulness of his officers and
men by means of the consumption of
little or no munitions of war other
than the burning of the coal neces-
sary to keep his ocean sleuths moving
incessantly up and down day and
night, in storm and sunshine, off those
waters through which, if at all, the
German fleet must make its way from
its haven to the high seas. By means
of its tireless watchfulnes, and its
silent self-restraint the British navy
igs making for itself a record hitherto
unequalled, in all the glorious annals
of its byegone achievements.

German Toy Trade
Crippled by the War

_ American Manufacturers Take Advan-
tage of Opportunity. and Are
Developing Business

With every advantage in their fav-
or and backed up by the assurance of
any material assistance which it may
be in the power of the government to
offer, American manufacturers of toys
are now enlarging their facilities with
the prosp.ct of making an active bid
for tne foreign as weil as the domestic
trade.

One toy manufac-urer in Massa-
chusetts is employing about three
hundred hands, more than twice the
number on his payroll than at the be-
ginning of the war, and others have
shown a proportionate expansion.
sucic are some toys which will al-
ways come from Germany, under nor-
mai conditions, of course, because of
the high development of the industry
in that country, but there are many
which can be made on a competitive
basis in the United States, says the
New York Herald,

Particular reference is made to the
manufacture of dolls, of which the
United States fomerly bought more
than $2,000,000 worth, or more than
one-fifth of the total production, in
SaxeCoburg-Gotha. The cmbargo will
shut off all this trade, and American
manufacturers seek to supply the mar-
ket. Purchases for holiday delivery
are being made at this early day, and
as this country annually buys $6,000,-
000 worth of miscellaneous toys in
Germany, the importance of the situa-

. tion is readily recognized.

Why Italy Fights

A New Age Is Battiing With the Old,

and Must Change It or Perish

Austria made out no case which jus-
tified her action. Germany had no
case which could stand for a moment
in a court of law, and the great as-
size of civilized mankind has already
found it wanting. Those governments,
irresponsible to the people, forced the
war upon the world, while the gov-
ernment of Italy would have preserved
neutrality if it could. But the popular
instinct overbore it. The dynasty
must have gone down had it withstood
the passionate popular demand that
the nation align itself with the forces
which are at work remaking the world,
Civilization is in a grapple to the
death with reaction. Feudalism and
the preposterous assumption of divine-
right kings and cast s are reddening
Europe with blocd to perpetuate a re-
gime which humanity has outgrown.
A new age is battling with the old and
must strangle it cr perish; and the
Italian people and we of America know
by an instinct which brushes all
sophistry aside where our sympathies
belong and where our true interests
lie. Humanity, like the Laocoon in
marble, has gripped the snakes that

Huns’ Reign of Terror

Crimes Unmatched In Three Cen-

turies of War
Murder, lust and pillage prevailed
over many parts of Belgium on a
scale unparalleled in any war between
civilized nations during the last three

centuries. In this sentence is em-
bodied a damning indictment of the
German troops which have overrun
Belgium—an indictment contained ‘n
the report of the powerful committee
appointed in December by the prime
minister “to consider and advise on
the evidence collected on behalf of his
majesty’s government as to outrages
alleged to have been committed by
German troops during the present
war, case of alleged maltreatment of
civilians in the irvaded territo1ies, and
breaches of the laws and established
usages of ‘var.”

It is proved that in many parts of
Belgium the massacres of the civil
population were deliberately and sys-
tematically organized. Innocert civil-
jians, men and women, were murdered
in large numbers, women violated and
children murdered. Looting, house-
burning, and wanton destruction of
property were ordered and counten-
aced by the German officers. Elabor-

provision had been made for sya-
tematic incendiarism as a part of the
system of general terrorization. The
rules and usages of war were frequent-
ly broken, especially in using women
and children as a shield for advanc-
ing forces. Wounded and prisoners
were killed and the Red Cross and the
white flag abused.

The report (which is issued in the
form of a 61-page pamphlet) is the re-
sult of the examination of more than
1,200 witnesses, Belgians (mostly civ-
ilians) and British officers and sold-
jers. Nearly all the depositions were
obtained under the supervision of Sir
Charles Mathews, director of public
prosecutions, and of Mr. E. Grimwood
Mears, barrister. It is added that sel-
dom did the Belgian witnesses show a
desire to describe what they had seen
or suffered.

The lawyers taking the deposition
were surprised to find how little vin-
dictiveness they showed, and how gen-
erally free from emotional excitement
their narratives were. Many hesitat-
de to speak lest what they said might
involve their friends cr relatives at
home in danger, and it was found nec-
essary to give an absolute promise
that names should not be disclosed,

A Souvenir from Ireland

Genuine Shillelagh, Being a Splendid
Specimen, Received by G.T.P,
Official
Mr. H. R. Chariton, the general ad-
vertising agent of the Grand Trunk
System, has received an interesting
souvenir of a visit paid to Canada by
a party of prominent British journal-

seek to crush it, and will come out of | ists.

the terrific struggle naked and breath-
less, prostrate perhaps, but free; and
that old world we knew @ year ago
wil] never be the same aain.—Roch-
ester Post-Express.

More than the increased wealth of
Britain is available to help that coun-
try carry the burden which will be
imposed upon it by its part as chief
bank of the allies. The whole world
is vastly wealthier than it ever was
Defore. It is better able to stand the
expense of a war far more costly than
any war of the past has been. Halt
the world is involved in the war now,
which means that, one way or another,
the billig will be spread over that
share of the population. Indeed, it 1s
apparent that all the rest of the
world thous ss actually in the war,
pid have elp pay--New York

Tess.

Among the newspapermen was Mr.)
T. Moles of the Belfast Telegraph, Bel-
fast, Ireland. Mr. Moles has now sent
to Montreal for Mr. Charlton's use a
splendid specimen of the genuine Irish
shillelagh, some two feet in length,
and decorated with the shamrock em-
blem. The ghillelagh attracted a
great deal of attention on its arrival
at Grand Trunk headquarters. In send-
ing it, Mr. Moles wrote:

“The real shillelagh is a little diffi-
cult to get now, the Americans having
scooped such as are easily available.
This particular one was grown at the
foot of Blemish mountain, upon which,
as you may know, St, Patrick, the
“patron saint’ of this country often
herded sheep. In case you may findit
necessary to lag gomeoey out, a wal-
lop with this be almost equivalent
to having him die tp the odour of sano
tity.

Germans will find that our tricky, un-
stable weather will prove as deadly
an enemy to their air raiders as our
cruisers were to their now-extinct sea
raiders.

These fully anticipated air excur-
sions have definitely proved a num-
ber of important points, from which
we have every justification for draw-
ing the most satisfactory conclusions.
7 rata these points we may say
that:

(a) The enemy's aircraft show the
greatest reluctance to trying conclu-
sions with any of our armed stations,
where preparationg have been made to
receive them.

(b) The craft used are of the fam.!-
jar type and they have not shown
themselves to be possessed of any ex-
ceptional qualities.

(c) The failura to strike any posi-
tion of military importance shows that
the darkening of the coast and the
putting out of all lights in the threat-
ened area leaves the Zeppelin hope-
lessly groping in the dark and unable
to drop bombs with the faintest like-
lihood of hitting any definite objective.

(d) The bombs themselves have
proved comparatively harmless,

(e) The destructive load carried is
small, and serious damage is purely a
matter of chance, and therefore a re-
mote possibility.

A number of people expressed sur-
prise at an enemy’s aeroplane appear-
ing during the da, but in this re-
spect it must be remembered that
night flying by aeroplanes, except on
known routes, over comparatively
short distances, is an extremely dan-
gerous undertaking. The aeroplane
must, therefore, come during the day-
light, and return before dark, hence
mid-day appearances of these craft are
most likely, It is almost unnecessary
to say that these visitors stand a very
good chan e of being intercepted on
their return journey by our coast-de-
fending aircraft. The anti-aircraft
gu. has also to be reckoned with, al-
though its value may be said to be
more or less of a potential character,
in that it prevents, or rather .ncreasés,
the risks cf, any airmen flying low.

The Zeppelin is not bound to travel
and arrive during the light, and it con-
sequently chooses the dark, when the
danger from anti-aircraft guns, rifle
fire and pursuing aeroplanes is at a
r‘nimum. Another advantage of the
Zeppelin is that it has a longer radius
of action, and can therefore avoid our
defended bases and attack more dis-
tant parts of the country. For this
reason the east coast is likely to re-
main the favorite resort of the ene-
my’s airships. But that is a matter
which need not worry residents along
these shores, for except in the Tyne
and London distzicts these trips are
likely to be chiefly in the nature of
trials.

That the enemy will make an at-
tempt to raid London and possibly the
Tyne, in force, can scarcely be doubt-
ed, but from the results achieved by
the recent raids we may conclude that
the damage done will only be local,
and not within the province of the
enemy to regulate. Moreover, the
nights are now getting shorter, and
consequently the probability of the

raiders reaching our shores undetect- |

ed is smaller, while the possibility of
a safe return is still more remote,

Mammoth Austrian Gun

It Takes Forty-Eight Hours to Set it
in Place

The war has produce¢ s0 many

mechanical] and chemical surprises

that they no longer surprise. About

the most recent of these in the new

Austrian 42<entimetre gun, an elong-
ated gister of the famous “thick Ber-
tha,” or 42-centimetre mortar. Some
interesting particulars are available.
A German war correspondent sends
from the Austrian press headquarters:

“The new Austrian 42-centimetre
gun, which is a howitzer (in contra-
distinction to the German 42-centl-
metre gun, which is a mortar), was
constructed by Chief Engineer Kroch

of the Pilsener Skoda Works. From
a gun planted behind the Dunajec
bridge the first shot was fired on

January 13. I have seen the effect
of this first shot in Tarnow. A hole
forty feet in diameter indicates the
spot where it landed.

“The inhabitants of Tarnow report
that the most terrible part was the
howling of the shell as it passed in
the air.

“It takes about one and a half
minutes from the firing to landing.
The fright and the tension during
these ninety seconds’are terrible, It
is a fact that many Russians went in-
sane from the fright. That was
vouched for from many sides. The
un has the dimensions of a steam
ocomotive. It takes two days to set
the Austrian 42-centimetre howitzer
up ready for action.”

Wheel Suppresses Noise

Car In Portland, Me., Sald to Run
Like Automobile

Elimination of the greater part of
the noise that now accompanies the
operation of street cars and elevated
and subway trains is a prospect of the
immediate future as the result of a
new noiseless wheel which is describ-
ed in the Popular Mechanics Maga-
zine.

A street car equipped with wheels
of this kind and recently subjected
to test runs at Portland, Me.,, is re-
ported to have run as noiselessly as
an automobile. The wheel is made of
two sections, and is in effect a wheel
within a wheel. The inner section is
fixed to the axle while the outer sec-
tion takes the bearing on the track.
Between the two sections is a cush-
fon of rubber of special composition
which absorbs the vibrations caused
bw the grind of the tire on the rail
and by irregularities in the track, and
it is this that gives the wheel its nolse-

of hostilities in the present war, state-

immediately following the outbreak

ments of the Kaiser are quoted which
show him to have been hoping for
such an incident as the Sarajevo
crime, to have welcomed the break
between Serbia and Austria as an op-
portunity for him to throw off the
mask of peace-maker he had grown
weary of wearing so that he might
emulate and continue the great deeds
of his grandfather, William I., strike
terror to the heart of the world, and
“put Germany on a pinnacle of glory
and power where none other will be
worthy to be mentioned beside it.”

The author of this dramatic reve-
lation of the German Emperor's in-
ner thoughts during the catastrophic
days of last July and August signs
himself as “Count Axel von Schwer-
ing.” The -Intransigeant of Paris,
however, declares ‘hat this count is
really Prince Von Fuetrstenburg, who
really did accompany the Kaiser on
his yachting trip to Norway in Aug-
ust. The Prince, it is also stated,
made the revelations contained in his
published memoirs to avenge on the
Kaiser the tragic disappointment the
Prince suffered by finding that his
peace-loving friend, the Kaiser, was
in reality a “scheming, cruel, un-
scrupulous brigand.”

After retailing the enmity that
once existed between the Emperor
and the Crown Prince, because of
the latter's impatience to win mili-

tary glory, showing how the German
Reichstag is reall; Jess powerful
than the Prussian Landing, and ex-

plaining that one of the early causes
of the present war was not a person-
al enmity between Emperor William
II. and King Edward VII., contracted
while the latter was still a Prince,
the author tells of a personal encoun-
ters with the great figures in the war
and the accuracy with which the
Kaiser foresaw Germany's part in
the hostilities.

The Kaiser's friendliness
is instanced as an indication of his
essentially democratic nature. In this
connection he says that the Emperor
even appointed to the responsible
post of minister of the German colo-
nies a baptized Jew, Herr Dernburg,
“an appointment which was the
cause of one of the greatest scandals
that Berlin has ever seen.”

On board his yacht in the Baltic
on July 1, after learning of the as-
sassination of Grand Duke Ferdinand
the Kaiser seemed meditative, im-
perturbable. “This may be the last
holiday I shall enjoy for a long
time,” he said to the writer. “Who
knows what the next month may
bring us? Sometimes the necessity
arises for a nation to assert itself, if
only pecause she feels’ that other-
wise others may do it to her disad-
vantage.””

“A spark may set fire to the whole
world.”

“The Kaiser,” said the narrator,
“seemed to be brooding over some

to Jews

plan.” On July 2 the writer dined
with Moltke, head of the general
staff.

“The Emperor,” said the general,
“has been dece‘ving us for years.

While pretending to be an adversary
of war, he has in his own mind been
continually thinking of the Cay when
he could declare it.’

| Homestead Proxies

Are Restricted

Department of the Interior Takes
Steps to Curtail Practice

An important notice has just been
issued in circular form by the depart-

| ment of the interior affecting the fil-

ing by proxy upon homestead land
and later abandoning the claim in
favor of relatives. The custom is be-
ing brought under more severe regu-
lation, as the following letter, ad-
dressed to Dominion lands agents and
inspectors, would indicate:

“Hitherto it has been the practice
to allow a settler who holds a proxy

entry for a homestead to abandon
such homest-ad in favor of certain
relatives, provided such abandonment
is received by the agent for the dis-
trict in which the land is situated be-
fore six months have elapsed from the
time the entry was made, notwith-
standing that the entrant had not fur-
nished proof that such entry had been
perfected.

“I am now to inform you that it
has been decided to change this prac-
tice, and in future an abandonment
in favor of a relative, executed by a
settler, who holds a proxy entry will
only be accepted provided the en-
trant has appeared before the agent
for the district and has fyled the us-
ual statutory declaration on form
“82C," and further satisfies the agent
by statutory declaration that he (the
entrant), has lived upon the land for
a period of not less than thirty days.

“By order,
“L. PEREIRA, Sec.”

Will Help to Develop Trade

Alex Johnston, deputy minister, ard
Col. Anderson, chief engineer of the
department of marine and fisheries,
have returned to Ottawa from a trip
of inspection to the Pacific coast.
They say that while trade is quiet at
present, the development of ports and
the construction of railways now in
progress in British Columbia is pre-
paring the way for the large business
which is expected to develop after the
war. The marine officials state that
the Grand Trunk Pacific dry dock at
Prince Rupert, the largest north of
San Francisco, which is about com-
pleted, will be of material assistance
‘a the development of the Pacific coast
trade.

Two Words
‘I just read that they're sending
French conscripts to the front,” he
was saying.
“Well, I suppose the poor things
might as well be there as in prison,”
murmured his sympathetic hostess.

(By C, C. James, C.M.G., Commissioner ;lation and extravagance that permeat
of Agriculture). ed the whole natiozal life and threat

For over a year we have been cele-| ened somewhat the best elements of
brating a hundred years of peace.|national growth. Suddenly the war
Canadians of early stock must go back | has come and we have to adjust our
four generations to find ancestors who /selves to new conditions. People who
fought for their country. In tens of! have been living to themselves and
thousands of our families all warlike|for themselves suddenly find them-
traditions have long since disappear-| selves confronted by a new situation.
ed, and we had become so accustom-), The empire calls for men who are will-
ed to peace that, when war was de-|ing to sacrifice everything, not merely
clared, it took time for us to realize | for imperial’ existence, but for human-
that the country was in such peril;ity. But more, the empire calls for
that that we were called upon really|food. And this second, but equally ur-
to offer our lives ageinst the attack of] gent and important call, some find
a powerful enemy, The scene of con-|hard to understand. We have pro-
flict was thousands of miles away,|duced food for ourselves and a sur
and many did not reaiize in fact do|plugs for our profitable export. To
not yet realize, that our country is in| call for food as a patriotic contribu-

danger. For three or four generations
we have felt safe and secure as a part
of the British empire, and hundreds of
thousands of our people still quietly
go about their business confident that
the British navy will surely see us
safely through. Only now, as reports
of casualties reach us every day, is
the war beginning to come home to
us. Considering these things, we real-
ize why French and British reservists,
who had gerved their country across
the sea and who were moved by the
traditions of their family life, respond- |
ed so readily to the call to arms, and
why peace-bred and peace-nurtured
Canadians have moved less rapidly.
We had well-nigh given up the art
of war and we had become absorbed
in the peaceful building up of a new
country. We have not been called up-
on to make sacrifices for the security
of our land and the safety of our
people. There has been developing
more and more among our people a
desire for wealth and office and per-
sonal preferment that has made us
somewhat selfish, anc. there has been
observed of late a tendeucy to specu-

Italy's Fighting Strength

Should Prove a Considerable Factor
in Support of the Allies

Field army of 12 corps and 3 divi-
sions of cavalry, 400,000 men; nine
yearly classes of reserves, fully equip-
ped, 800,000; reserves not equipped,
but training, 500,000; making a total
of 1,700,000 men.

Each army corps of the field army
consists of two different divisions ex-
cept the Roman district corps, which
has three.

There are two brigades of infantry
(two regiments to a brigade) and a reg-
iment of field artillery in each divi-
sion. The total war strengtn of a divi-
sion is 14,156 men and cifficers, 1,399
horses and 30 guns.

The army also has 39 aeroplanes.

The navy:

Dreadnoughts in commission....
Dreadnoughts to be completed in

1015 ¥
Pre-dreadnoughts
Armored cruisers

4

2
8

Protected cruisers .....+++s+eee- 16
Torpedo gunboatS ........s+.s005 10
DeStroyersS ......eeeceecceteseees 46
Torpedo boats «++ 86
Submarines ......-- a7 =

Total number of warships .... 206]

The two dreadnoughts to be com-
pleted this year are the Duilio and
Doria. Their principal armament will
be thirteen 12-inch guns, Four new
dreadnoughts were laid duwn in 1914.
Their principal armament will be
eight 15-inch guns of the type of the
latest British dreadnoughts, like the

' the

tion is perhaps the most difficult of
all to understand. What is the first
thing needed? Instruction, education,
the placing of the full facts before the
people. Wat, you say, do they really
reed to be told what is needed? My
answer to that is, there is just as
much need for information for the
people as to the material needs of the
empire as to have clearly set before
them the need for men to serve. Fur-
ther, it is the duty of the governments
to see that full and correct informa-
tion as to food conditions uf the allies
and of the enemy be given to the peo
ple. What would have been said if no
such action had been taken? Surely
no apology, no explanation need be
given for a campaign to give the peo-
ple the fullect and most reliable in-
formation along this line. As for link-
ing up patriotism with production, I
shall not be one to deny to the farm-
ers of Canada human feeling and
mental make-up equal to those of
workers in other lines. Rural patriot-
ism emanating from full knowledge
of needs and opportunities may yet be
th salvation of this country.

A Big Task
Allied Navies Have Paralyzed the
Enemy’s Shipping
The magnitude of the task the
navies of the allied powers have per-
formed since the outbreak of the war
is in a measure indicated by the fact
that a year ago the actual tonnage of
Germany's shipping stood second in
the world and in eight months the
German flag has been swept off the
seas. This means, says the Military
and Naval Record, that the enemy's
mercantile marine, which consisted of
2,388 steam and gailing vessels, with
a total tonnage of nearly 5,500,000,
has been paralyzed so that, apart
from the fact that the enemy’s food
supply has been jeopardized, the in-
come of the holders of shares has been
depleted almost to vanishing point.
This has already been shown by the
reports of some German steamship
companies for 1914, and now the re
port of the Reederei Aktiengesell-
schaft of Hamburg permits of a com
parison in the case of sailing ships,
According to the Financial Times,
Reederei is the biggest concern
in Germany engage! in the sailing
ship trade, and formerly had a wide
connection, mainly in South American
ports. The outbreak of hostilities
brought the earninig power of the
company to a complete end, and
eleven vessels were captured or de-
tained by the allies, while all those
on outward voyages are now lying
idle in neutarl harbors. The gross
receipts slumped from 1,333,000 to

Queen Elizabeth, now at the Darda-
nelles,

In addition to the permanent army | comes
all times nine classes of} with 497,000 marks.

there are :

459,000 marks, and the net revenue
after reducing the depreciation allow-
ance from 614,500 to 110,900 marks,
out at 161,300 as compared
The dividend

reservists, men who have served two| scales down from 12 to 4 per cent.

years in the permanent army and who
are armed, equipped and ready for
service. There are about 90,000, in
each such class, what is left of the

Telescribe Perfected

men who have retired from the perm-| Words Spoken 3,000 Miles Away May

anent army each year ior the past
nine years, They know at all times just
where to join their regiments, and the

be Recorded on Wax Cylinder
Thomas A. Edison, at 68, am
nounces the completion and perfection

mobilization of such an army is a Mat-| 0? nis jatest invention, the telescribe,

ter of only a short time.

After two years’ active service and
nine years in the reserve, the men
are subjected to militia duty for eight
years.

Value of Rotation Crops

The First Essential to Good Farming/few private demonstrations of

Is Crop Rotation

No real friend of agriculture advo- | more

cates the heedless raising of things.

That has ruined too much good land | giv

in this country in the past. It is wast-
ing the fertility of many
But raising things by good farming is
a different propostion, because it re-
quires the maintenance of the means
of raising them. The first essential to
a £00 system of farming is
profitable use of the products. A pre-
vailing crop rotation is usually the re-
sult of the past experience, of the
farmers of the locality and it should
not be lightly discarded. But it may
have become a sort of habit. It might
be much improved. This is worth
thinking about. Is the rotation follow-
ed the best possible one? Could it be
changed with benefit to the farm and
farmer? What have been the effects
of the past system on the land and on
its present capacity to nreduce good
crops?——National Stockman and Farm-
er.

The rehearsal had not gone at all
to please the stage director, who at its
close, severely and unjustly criticized
the leading man. In conclusion’ he
said: “Say, do you think I have been
a stage director for fifteen years for
nothing?” “I cannot say as to that,”
answered the actor suavely, “but if
you haven't, you have cheated the
management.”

If the swine are in the fattenin
stage they should have all they wil
eat up clean, but growing animals
should have just enough to keep them
in a thrifty growing condition.

a combination of telephone and phono-
graph by which telephone conversa
tions may be perfectly recorded on a
wax record, though the persons con-
versing be 3,000 miles apart.

It was learned some time ago that
Mr. Edison, though handicapped by
deafness, had succeeded in combining
telephone and phonograph, and a
the
instrument were given. After many
months of work on the new ap-
paratus he announces its completion,
ing him the credit for more than 1,-
500 inventions, or more patents than

acres now.| Were ever issued to any other one tn-

dividual! in all the realms of invention,

As a result of the invention of the
telescribe, “canned evidence” may
now be presented to a jury. A man
cannot deny his own voice, and his
own words recorded on a phonograph
may be adduced in court

The telescribe is an electrical ar
rangement consisting of a sensitive
telephone for convenient desk use,
with controlling buttons to operate a

special recording machine placed
nearby. It is so sensitive that it will
receive the same impressions of sound
as the human ear, the slightest vibra-

tion being recorded, The sounds sent
both ways are recorded on a cylinder
record.
The Usual Compromise

In his law practice Lincoln discou»
aged his neighbors who wished to go
to law, One day a farmer drove in
to get a divorce. He had built a
frame house and wished it painted
white. His vife wanted it brown,
There had been an argument and
then there had been trouble. Mr.
Lincoln said to him: “You have
not lived with this woman all these
years without learning that there is
such a thing as a compromise. Go
back home; think no more of this
divorce for a month. Then come
to me again.” In a month the farm-
er returned. “We are going to have
the house painted brown,”